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Post by metman on Jun 3, 2008 23:36:54 GMT
At Harrow-on-the-Hill: Not seen this before but the boards on plats 3 and 4 said ''platform 1 for Amersham and all stations to Aylesbury''
Obviously this is not a new sign rather and option I have never seen lit up before! Has this been newly (re)introduced?
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Post by Harsig on Jun 4, 2008 6:44:25 GMT
At Harrow-on-the-Hill: Not seen this before but the boards on plats 3 and 4 said ''platform 1 for Amersham and all stations to Aylesbury'' Obviously this is not a new sign rather and option I have never seen lit up before! Has this been newly (re)introduced? Doubt it. The signalman has probably just found the switch and decided to use it for once. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2008 11:56:31 GMT
There are a couple of cut in/out switches i'm off for a couple of days but back in on saturday night and will have a look
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Post by Harsig on Jun 4, 2008 14:54:06 GMT
There are a couple of cut in/out switches i'm off for a couple of days but back in on saturday night and will have a look One is the Moor Park/Ricky Non Stop Cut off switch which adds or removes those two stations to the list of 'Not Stopping At' Stations for trains to Aylesbury. The other is the switch which illuminates the message in platforms 3 & 4 that is the subject of this thread |
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Post by astock5000 on Jun 4, 2008 15:22:04 GMT
Aren't 'Not stopping at' signs sometimes confusing to passengers, as most railways list stations the train is stopping at?
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Post by Harsig on Jun 4, 2008 15:30:49 GMT
Aren't 'Not stopping at' signs sometimes confusing to passengers, as most railways list stations the train is stopping at? This is the Met we're talking about. It always does things a little differently. Where else do you get Drivers announcing their trains a 'All Stations' only to go past the next five without stopping. |
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Post by astock5000 on Jun 4, 2008 15:36:07 GMT
This is the Met we're talking about. It always does things a little differently. Where else do you get Drivers announcing their trains a 'All Stations' only to go past the next five without stopping. And where else do you get LU trains with comfortable seats! The District must have been confusing once, with 'non-stop' trains that stopped at a lot of stations. They also used 'not stopping at'. |
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Post by ruislip on Jun 4, 2008 18:10:35 GMT
Did stations on the Watford/Amersham/Chesham part of the Met ever have the wooden destination boards similar to those which were on the "up" platforms of stations on the Uxbridge branch?
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Post by Harsig on Jun 4, 2008 19:33:58 GMT
There are a couple of cut in/out switches i'm off for a couple of days but back in on saturday night and will have a look In fact I've managed to locate a (not very good) picture of the NB TD set up panel with the two switches on the right. The top one is the Platform 3 & 4 Change for Aylesbury sign, while the other is the Moor Park Ricky NS Cut Off |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2008 16:27:33 GMT
When I used to work in the box at Harrow the signalman always tried to put the fast Amershams and Cheshams through platform one when they could. If they did, I had to tell the railman on the platform and also (depending on the signalman) flick the platform 1 switch to tell the passengers that their next service was going to be arriving on platform one, ie: that sign your talking about.
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Post by metman on Jun 5, 2008 18:08:18 GMT
Its not the sign I was talking about, but I remember the sign you're talking about. There is a 'Change for Amersham' sign on plats 3-4!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2008 19:53:56 GMT
ok so whats G6 t/d then i can work out the others
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Post by mrfs42 on Jun 5, 2008 20:43:25 GMT
G6 is (from memory) for a Goods train, there was also in times past a G7.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2008 20:47:32 GMT
cheers
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Post by mrfs42 on Jun 5, 2008 21:03:53 GMT
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Post by c5 on Jun 5, 2008 21:22:03 GMT
I may be wrong, but, I think that G6 is still used for non stop Chilterns or NR trains. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2008 0:05:54 GMT
a g6 is what we use for what nowadays are stock moves and as for non stopping chiltern trains with pax we use lm1
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Post by Harsig on Jun 6, 2008 7:26:47 GMT
Its not the sign I was talking about, but I remember the sign you're talking about. There is a 'Change for Amersham' sign on plats 3-4! I think confusion is beginning to surface here. From memory the Change for Aylesbury switch has two effects. One is to add the phrase Change for Aylesbury below the Amersham destination. The other is to display the message on platforms 3&4, 'Platform One for Amersham and stations to Aylesbury' whenever there is an Amersham description displayed on that platform. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2008 15:13:08 GMT
Has anyone spotted that the lightbox on platform 1 still has Ruislip in it. Dates from the days of the high level connection to the Uxbridge branch, though most trains routed this way were usually fast Fnchley Road to Rayners Lane. Did it get much us?
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Post by Harsig on Jun 6, 2008 15:24:25 GMT
Has anyone spotted that the lightbox on platform 1 still has Ruislip in it. Dates from the days of the high level connection to the Uxbridge branch, though most trains routed this way were usually fast Fnchley Road to Rayners Lane. Did it get much us? Did it get much use? No, since a Ruislip description was not provided on the Met train describers until 1975, in conjuction with the commissioning of Ruislip Siding IMR, and this was some eight years after the high level route to the Uxbridge branch was taken out of use. Its presence on platform 1 is more likely to do with simplifying production of the train describer panels by making them identical on platforms 1,3&4 (in which case there may well be an Aylesbury description lurking on platforms 3&4) |
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